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This thesis considers sequential decision problems, where the loss/reward incurred by selecting an action may not be inferred from observed feedback. A major part of this thesis focuses on the unsupervised sequential selection problem,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Arun Verma

The sequential hypothesis testing problem is a class of statistical analyses where the sample size is not fixed in advance. Instead, the decision-process takes in new observations sequentially to make real-time decisions for testing an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-12 Wanrong Zhang , Yajun Mei , Rachel Cummings

We consider a sequential problem in decentralized detection. Two observers can make repeated noisy observations of a binary hypothesis on the state of the environment. At any time, any of the two observers can stop and send a final message…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Ashutosh Nayyar , Demosthenis Teneketzis

The problem of simultaneously testing the marginal distributions of sequentially monitored, independent data streams is considered. The decisions for the various testing problems can be made at different times, using data from all streams,…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-21 Yiming Xing , Georgios Fellouris

We consider the hypothesis testing problem of detecting conditional dependence, with a focus on high-dimensional feature spaces. Our contribution is a new test statistic based on samples from a generative adversarial network designed to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-20 Alexis Bellot , Mihaela van der Schaar

It has been consistently reported that many machine learning models are susceptible to adversarial attacks i.e., small additive adversarial perturbations applied to data points can cause misclassification. Adversarial training using…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-15 Hossein Taheri , Ramtin Pedarsani , Christos Thrampoulidis

We consider a multiple hypothesis testing setting where the hypotheses are ordered and one is only permitted to reject an initial contiguous block, H_1,\dots,H_k, of hypotheses. A rejection rule in this setting amounts to a procedure for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-25 Max Grazier G'Sell , Stefan Wager , Alexandra Chouldechova , Robert Tibshirani

A distributed binary hypothesis testing problem is studied with one observer and two decision centers. Achievable type-II error exponents are derived for testing against conditional independence when the observer communicates with the two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Sadaf Salehkalaibar , Michele Wigger , Roy Timo

Sequential monitoring in clinical trials is often employed to allow for early stopping and other interim decisions, while maintaining the type I error rate. However, sequential monitoring is typically described only in the context of a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-29 Victoria Plamadeala , William F. Rosenberger

We consider the problem of hypotheses testing with the basic simple hypothesis: observed sequence of points corresponds to stationary Poisson process with known intensity. The alternatives are stationary self-exciting point processes. We…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-03-27 Serguei Dachian , Yury A. Kutoyants

In many derivative-free optimization algorithms, a sufficient decrease condition decides whether to accept a trial step in each iteration. This condition typically requires that the potential objective function value decrease of the trial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Anjie Ding , Francesco Rinaldi , Luis Nunes Vicente

We study the problem of learning predictors that are robust to adversarial examples with respect to an unknown perturbation set, relying instead on interaction with an adversarial attacker or access to attack oracles, examining different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Omar Montasser , Steve Hanneke , Nathan Srebro

We consider the problem of sensor selection for time-optimal detection of a hypothesis. We consider a group of sensors transmitting their observations to a fusion center. The fusion center considers the output of only one randomly chosen…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-10 Vaibhav Srivastava , Kurt Plarre , Francesco Bullo

We consider the problem of sequentially testing a simple null hypothesis versus a composite alternative hypothesis that consists of a finite set of densities. We study sequential tests that are based on thresholding of mixture-based…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-23 Georgios Fellouris , Alexander G. Tartakovsky

We present a multivariate one-sided sensitivity analysis for matched observational studies, appropriate when the researcher has specified that a given causal mechanism should manifest itself in effects on multiple outcome variables in a…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-12-03 Peter L. Cohen , Matt A. Olson , Colin B. Fogarty

We consider the binary hypothesis testing problem with two observers. There are two possible states of nature (or hypotheses). Observations collected by the two observers are statistically related to the true state of nature. The knowledge…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Aneesh Raghavan , John S. Baras

The problem of binary hypothesis testing between two probability measures is considered. New sharp bounds are derived for the best achievable error probability of such tests based on independent and identically distributed observations.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Valentinian Lungu , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

In this work, we consider a binary sequential hypothesis testing problem with distributed and asynchronous measurements. The aim is to analyze the effect of sampling times of jointly $\textit{wide-sense stationary}$ (WSS) Gaussian…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-12 Nandan Sriranga , Saikiran Bulusu , Baocheng Geng , Pramod K. Varshney

This paper resolves two open problems from a recent paper, arXiv:2403.16981, concerning the sample complexity of distributed simple binary hypothesis testing under information constraints. The first open problem asks whether interaction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Hadi Kazemi , Ankit Pensia , Varun Jog

The problem of multiple hypothesis testing with observation control is considered in both fixed sample size and sequential settings. In the fixed sample size setting, for binary hypothesis testing, the optimal exponent for the maximal error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-05 Sirin Nitinawarat , George Atia , Venugopal V. Veeravalli